(05-03) 19:38 PDT Oakland -- It took about a half hour, but the California Highway Patrol managed to get a herd of as many as 50 goats out of the roadway near the Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24.

"They are no longer in the roadway, I know we had two officers who got on scene, there might have been more," said Officer W. Ogilvie of CHP Operations in Oakland. The animal hazard report was logged on the westbound Highway 24 and Highway 13 connector at 5:43 p.m. and herd was removed within a half hour.

Witnesses reported the goats were wandering the lanes, causing motorists to brake for the hazard. One witness said she was stuck trying to get on Highway 13. Amy Stabler, a motorist stuck while she waited for the critters to move off the freeway, said she stopped in traffic when she realized that as many as 50 goats were straying into the lanes.

"They just kept coming over the ridge," she said. "Cars just couldn't get past because as soon as one moved on, two or more came over." She said a motorcycle officer arrived to start rounding up the goats, but she did not see a herder around to mind the goats.